President Paul McNulty of Grove City Park College plans to retire at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year. McNulty was appointed President in 2014 following a career as a Deputy Attorney General for the United States and as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
McNulty is a graduate of the College, and he earned his J.D. at Capital University School of Law.
On July 18, 2024 Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice James Genovese was named the 21st president of Northwestern State University. Genovese has served on the Louisiana Supreme Court since 2017 and worked as an attorney for 21 years before he was appointed as a judge in 1995. He has no higher education experience. He earned his J.D. from Loyola New Orleans School of Law.
Judge Genovese will succeed President Marcus Jones, who is also a lawyer.
Following four years as vice chancellor of the Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity at the University of Missouri, Maurice Gipson is leaving to become the interim president of Philander Smith University is Little Rock, Arkansas effective August 15, 2024. Gipson previously served as vice chancellor of Diversity and Community Engagement at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Prior to that he served for two years as a special assistant to the vice president for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as an institutional advancement and diversity consultant at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma.
Gipson holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, a juris doctorate from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a master’s degree in history from Missouri State University in Springfield and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.